Return from Allatoona--Hood's Deportment--Cross the Coosa 285
River--Devastation around Rome--Rome Burned--Garrison of Resaca
Refuses to Surrender--Capture of the Seventeenth Iowa Regiment
at Tilton--Dalton Taken--Dug Gap--Dinner of Roasting
Ears--Supper--Captured Officers are Jolly Good
Fellows--Gadsden--Encampment at Mrs. Sansom's--Her Daughter a
Guide for Gen. Forrest when He Captured Gen. Streight--Cross the
Black Warrior River and Sand Mountains--Decatur--Some Fighting
at Decatur--Gen. Beauregard with Hood--Beautiful Valley of the
Tennessee made Desolate by War--Tuscumbia--Dreary March to
Columbia, Rain and Snow--Stewart's and Cheatham's Corps Cross
Duck River _en Route_ to Spring Hill--Hood Slept--Schofield
Passed By--Pursue Schofield to Franklin--Battle of
Franklin--Incidents--Remarkable Order for a Second Assault at
Night--Losses in My Two Brigades--Exchange of Prisoners Stopped